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- {
- With all the tonnes of absolutely NO help that the Pascal conferences
- provided me <in one day> I've managed to hack my VGA Font loading code
- to work properly in p-mode.
-
- It's quite a trick getting the DPMI servers to allocate memory under
- the one meg mark, but it is possible if you write a couple of routines
- like the ones below (or golly-gee, use those! :) ..
-
- Oh yeah - one other tip. Those of you who use OpCrt, TpCrt, or maybe
- even plain CRT. The ScreenHeight function will not return the correct
- value after a font change (if the change is a new line mode) unless you
- call ReInitCRT.
-
- Here's the code:
- }
- Unit LF;
-
- {$IFDEF Windows}
- This will not work with Windows!
- {$ENDIF}
-
- { Text-mode font routines }
- { (c)1994 Chris Lautenbach }
- { }
- { Date Revision Description }
- { ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── }
- { Sep 07 94 1.0 Wrote real mode routines }
- { Sep 09 94 1.1 Added protected mode versions }
-
- { Notes: }
-
- { It is important to note, that under protected mode, the normal VGA BIOS }
- { extensions could not access the memory procured by GetMem(). This is why }
- { the SimulateRealModeInt() and XGlobalDosAlloc() routines were needed. }
- { XGlobalDosAlloc() allocates memory under the 1mb mark that the VGA BIOS is }
- { capable of accessing, and thereby allows font loads in p-mode. }
-
- { Any size/line font may be used. This is because I used subfunction $11 }
- { instead of $10. $11 will calculate the scanlines/etc required for the }
- { font you are loading by dividing the number of characters by the fonts }
- { total size (as does LoadFont(), so that we may properly allocate memory). }
- { I've tested 25, 33, 50, and 66 line mode fonts with it and they all work }
- { fine. Make sure the font you are loading is _pure_ binary, and does not }
- { contain header information for some sort of font editing/loading program. }
-
- { The calls to LoadFont() are identical in p-mode to real mode, so you won't }
- { need to do any code changes should you decide to switch between the modes }
- { later on. Nor is any special setup necessary. Just USE it, and load }
- { fonts, that's it! :) }
-
- { Restrictions: }
-
- { Don't you dare use this code for profit without proclaiming my name in a }
- { prominent place in your program! :) (Oh, and it don't work under Windoze }
- { but I'm sure you knew that...) }
-
- INTERFACE
-
- {$IFDEF DPMI}
- Uses WinApi;
- {$ENDIF}
-
- function LoadFont(FileName : string) : boolean;
- { Loads a 255-character font from FileName to font 0 and sets it on }
-
- procedure NormalFont;
- { Returns the system to the normal system 8x16 character font }
- { !! This routine works fine under p-mode without modifications since it }
- { does no memory allocation of any kind. }
-
- IMPLEMENTATION
-
- {$IFDEF DPMI}
- Type LongRec = record
- Selector, Segment : word;
- end;
-
- DoubleWord = record
- Lo, Hi : word;
- end;
-
- QuadrupleByte = record
- Lo, Hi, sLo, sHi : byte;
- end;
-
- TDPMIRegisters = record
- EDI, ESI, EBP, Reserved, EBX, EDX, ECX, EAX : longint;
- Flags, ES, DS, FS, GS, IP, CS, SP, SS : word;
- end;
-
- function XGlobalDosAlloc(Size : longint; var P : Pointer) : word;
- { Allocates memory in an area that DOS can access properly }
- var Long : longint;
- begin
- Long := GlobalDosAlloc(Size);
- P := Ptr(LongRec(Long).Selector, 0);
- XGlobalDosAlloc := LongRec(Long).Segment;
- end;
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-
- function SimulateRealModeInt(IntNo : word;
- var Regs : TDPMIRegisters) : word; assembler;
- { Simulates a real mode interrupt }
- asm
- PUSH BP { Save BP, just in case }
- MOV BX,IntNo { Move the Interrupt number into BX }
- XOR CX,CX { Clear CX }
- LES DI,Regs { Load the registers into ES:DI }
- MOV AX,$300 { Set function number to 300h }
- INT $31 { Call Interrupt 31h - DPMI Services }
- JC @Exit { Jump to exit on carry }
- XOR AX,AX { Clear AX }
- @Exit: { Exit label }
- POP BP { Restore BP }
- end;
-
- function LoadFont(FileName : string) : boolean;
- { Loads a 255-character font from FileName to font 0 and sets it on }
- var FontFile : file;
- Font, Tmp : pointer;
- S, O, FontSize, RMSeg, DPSel : word;
- BPC : byte;
- Regs : TDPMIRegisters;
- begin
- {$I-}
- Assign(FontFile, FileName); { Open the file }
- Reset(FontFile, 1); { Reset it }
- {$I+}
- If (IOResult <> 0) then { File opening was unsuccessful }
- begin
- LoadFont := FALSE; { Return FALSE }
- Exit; { Return to caller }
- end;
- FontSize := FileSize(FontFile); { Get the font size }
- FillChar(Regs, SizeOf(Regs), #0); { Clear the DPMI registers }
- Regs.ES := XGlobalDosAlloc(FontSize, Font); { Allocate memory }
- BlockRead(FontFile, Font^, FontSize); { Load the font }
- BPC := FontSize DIV 256; { Calculate bytes per character }
- Close(FontFile); { Close the font file }
- DoubleWord(Regs.EBP).Hi := Regs.ES; { Load font address into ES:BP }
- QuadrupleByte(Regs.EAX).Hi := $11; { Set function $11 }
- QuadrupleByte(Regs.EAX).Lo := $10; { Set sub-function $10 }
- QuadrupleByte(Regs.EBX).Hi := BPC; { Set # of bytes per character }
- QuadrupleByte(Regs.EBX).Lo := $00; { Set font number to 0 }
- DoubleWord(Regs.ECX).Lo := $FF; { # of chars to load = 256 }
- DoubleWord(Regs.EDX).Lo := $0; { Set start char to 0 }
- SimulateRealModeInt($10, Regs); { Call the interrupt }
- GlobalDosFree(LongRec(Font).Selector); { Free up the memory }
- LoadFont := TRUE; { Return TRUE - function successful! }
- end;
- {$ENDIF}
-
- {$IFDEF MSDOS}
- function LoadFont(FileName : string) : boolean;
- { Loads a 255-character font from FileName to font 0 and sets it on }
- var FontFile : file;
- Font, Tmp : pointer;
- S, O, FontSize, RMSeg, DPSel : word;
- BPC : byte;
- begin
- {$I-}
- Assign(FontFile, FileName); { Open the file }
- Reset(FontFile, 1); { Reset it }
- {$I+}
- If (IOResult <> 0) then { File opening was unsuccessful }
- begin
- LoadFont := FALSE; { Return FALSE }
- Exit; { Return to caller }
- end;
- FontSize := FileSize(FontFile); { Get the font size }
- GetMem(Font, FontSize); { Allocate memory for font }
- BlockRead(FontFile, Font^, FontSize); { Load the font }
- BPC := FontSize DIV 256; { Calculate bytes per character }
- Close(FontFile); { Close the font file }
- S := Seg(Font^); { Get segment of font }
- O := Ofs(Font^); { Get offset of font }
- asm
- PUSH BP { Save BP }
- MOV AL,$10 { Set sub-function $10 }
- MOV AH,$11 { Set function $11 }
- MOV BH,BPC { Set # of bytes per character }
- MOV BL,$00 { Set font # to load }
- MOV CX,$FF { Set # of chars to load }
- MOV DX,$0 { Set start of load to character 0 }
- MOV ES,S { Load segment of font to load }
- MOV BP,O { Load offset of font to load }
- INT $10 { Call BIOS Interrupt 10h }
- POP BP { Restore BP }
- end;
- FreeMem(Font, FontSize); { Release allocated memory }
- LoadFont := TRUE; { Return TRUE - function successful! }
- end;
- {$ENDIF}
-
- procedure NormalFont; assembler;
- { Returns the system to the normal system 8x16 character font }
- asm
- MOV AL,$04 { Set sub-function 04h }
- MOV AH,$11 { Set function 11h }
- MOV BL,$00 { Select font 0 as the one to reset }
- INT $10 { Call BIOS Interrupt 10h }
- end;
-
- begin
- end.